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Game Design is the practice of creating and balancing systems and the mechanics which the player uses to affect those systems. This is not to be used for programming questions about the "design" of features, engines, etc.

I was wondering if anyone could recommend an online course or a book which would contain valuable information for a young game designer like myself. At this moment i am trying to focus on world/level ...

For example, cosmetic items like the Team Fortress 2 hat "Proof of Purchase" and "Earbuds," or the League of Legends "King Rammus" and "PAX JAX?"
I can clearly see the value for the players that get ...

I am an artist who wants to contribute for making 3d game characters ,objects, item etc. I want to know what software (and also type of file extension) is most often used for mobile game programmers ...

I am thinking of developping a game and my inspiration largely relies on an existing game (with not many similar existing). Which parts am I allowed by law to replicate (in my own way of course) and ...

I'm looking to make a button that is activated by two of the same objects, but the code I'm using doesn't recognize the second object as a different instance. Not the best explanation but here's the ...

I was looking up 3D character models from various games (Battlefield 3 and DMC to be specific), just as research work and upon importing the model into Blender3D, I found that every part of the model ...

I am trying to design a map for my strategy game and Unity seems to have a lot of very helpful tools that simplify the process. I am trying to make a territory system in Unity (using the C# language) ...

i created tool that generate lua script on each level which contain lot function, and they named based on the object+id format. ex : trigger1(), etc; so every level may have same function name, what i ...

I am a programmer and I recently started creating small games in C++. It was to practice my skills and learn more about game development and the techniques used to program a game. Recently I got the ...

I've recently been working on a hobby voxel world recently.
I'm currently interested in ideas or solutions which would enable me to basically step up and down the Y-axis 1 horizontal block slice at ...

I'm pretty new to Game Development world. I'm using Unity 3D (4.6 - Latest version I think) and Visual Studio to code the script and something when I edit the script un VS 2013 and go back to Unity ...

I have overheard game designers mentioning something called convexity in games. This seems to be a game-design-specific concept, different from (although possibly related to) that in geometry or game ...

Suppose I'm creating a racing game.. I would like to implement an awareness system AI, that will suggest to the player that he can buy that booster or some other upgrade, .. etc. How should I start ...

I want coins to burst out of an obstacle in random directions after I destroy it, kind of like the rings in sonic. I have everything else done: the physics, bouncing, instantiating to coins. I just ...

I have a 2D game I'm making with Unity, and I want the player to be able to collect coins that I place all over the game. I used the coin prefab with a 2D circle collider and an animation to make it ...

I've been using unity to make 2d indie type games for a while now. However, i've tried to branch into different genres and unity cant do some of the things that i want it to do(although it is still ...

I've always had a hard time wrapping my head around the 'high levels' of game logic and where/how large components, such as collision detection/physics, rendering, and user input, interact with one ...

There seems to be a set of rules (or game design criteria) common to free MMOGs, to encourage fair competition. One such rule is that each player may have only a single account (despite the difficulty ...

I want to know if I can just implement sqlite database for android in libgdx game?
Also if this is not possible then may I know the simple way to integrate libgdx game to just store scores in sqlite ...

In a virtual economy, you can calculate all the income and all the costs (money that sinks) from every user in the game. You can calculate the percentage of the new money on the system or the money ...

I have gold stars in my game that give score to game hero if the hero overlap with the star. What I want is to remove star once it overlap with hero object.
I give score by checking overlap with this ...

I have a game in XNA, I want to connect this game with WindowForm to show for example the distance and the position.
I tried to apply many tutorials that talking about this.
but here is my problem :
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My name i Magnus. I was hoping that some of you, could help me answer som questions, about game development and the game industry. It wille be used for a project about our future, that all 10. graders ...

I recently created a tournament system that will soon lead into player rankings. Basically, after players are done with the tournament, they are given a rank based on how they did in the tournament. ...